I’m giving a paper about Second Life Librarianship for the VALA conference this Tuesday. I’m showing a couple of little movies I’ve made of Info Island and the Australian Libraries Building that I’ll link to when I’ve added sound. Here’s the details Tuesday 5 February 2008   1120 – 1150 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Library 2.0 Kathryn [...]

Are you attending Beyond the Hype: Web 2.0 or the VALA conference? Would you like to share what you see and discover with other library folk? We’d love it if some readers would become conference correspondents for these events. Or maybe you have something interesting happening in your library that you want to share? An [...]

A few of the Libraries Interact team will be in Melbourne for the VALA 2008 conference from 5th to 7th February and are getting together for dinner. We are keen to catch up with each other and with fellow bloggers and Libraries Interact readers. So it is with great pleasure that the team from Libraries [...]

Sue Hutley updates us on what ALIA is doing about the proposed Internet filtering in Australia: “Roxanne Missingham and I are meeting with Senator Conroy’s advisor this Thursday.  Derek Whitehead as Chair of the Online Content Advisory Committee and Vice-president is also very involved in this issue. There will also be more information on our [...]

…and the conference season is upon us once more. First cab off the rank is Beyond the Hype in Queensland (rego closes in a couple of days, draft programme announced) on Feb 1-2, very closely followed by VALA on Feb 5-7 in Victoria. Plus there’s a bunch of Calls for Abstracts (CFA) out at the [...]

Alexis Madrigal at Wired Science reports that Google will start hosting terabytes of open source research data at http://research.google.com. The storage will be free to scientists and freely accessible to all.  The project is called Palimpsest and one of the planned datasets is the Hubble Space telescope data – all 120 terabytes. Google to Host [...]

The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) has published audio recordings from Clever Collections: A National Showcase of Technical Innovations for Digital Collections, which was held in November last year. APSR is continuing to work on the recordings to reduce the file sizes, and break them up into sections for each presentation. If you can’t [...]

Our very own Kathryn Greenhill has joined with CAVAL to offer one day workshops in Sydney and Melbourne on Second Life. “Are YOU ready to “fly, teleport and change appearance at will”? Many library users are already leading mysterious double lives, but are Online Virtual Worlds an over-hyped Web 2.0 bubble or the Next Big [...]

Commoncraft have released Online photosharing in Plain English . Enjoy.

Hot off the press via Digg – Librarian is one of 31 careers with a bright future according to Best Careers 2008 from US News and World Report. Quoting the Librarian: Executive Summary: “Forget about that image of librarian as a mousy bookworm. Librarians these days must be high-tech information sleuths, helping researchers plumb the [...]